Darnakes

Line up

• Alex Panagopoulos (Percussion)
• Fotis Dousos (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Lute)
• Lefteris Moutsinas (Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals)
• Lina Sopiadou (Vocals)
• Othonas Kokkinos (Sound technician)
• Pavlos Metsios (Trumpet, Backing vocals)
• Yiannis Arjoglou (Electric and Double Bass, Backing Vocals)
• Yiannis Poulios (Acoustic Guitar, Lute)
• Yiorgos Agelakis (Trombone, Accordion, Backing Vocals)
• Yiorgos Dousos (Flute, Clarinet, Bagpipe)
• Yiorgos Panagopoulos (Drums)

• country:
  Greece
• region:
  Balkan
• style(s):
  Balkan Gypsy
• label:
  AnoKato Records
• type:
  Band
• gender:
  male, female
• instrumentation:
  vocal
• artist submitted by:
  Mucho Gusto (promotion)

Balkan Post-Gypsy Punk from Northern Greece.

11 members, 21 instruments, 53 strings, 4 horn nozzles, 6 singing throats, 1 brunette and a rented van.

With this line-up they already toured excessively in Northern Greece, they performed in all the major live halls of Thessaloniki and took part in Ljubliana-based Ethnic Balkan festival Terminal 2005, in which they gained momentum for their live shows.

They consider their music to be a kind of greek-speaking power ethnic or in excess a Balkan post gypsy punk.

Their playlist consists of their own compositions, as well as cover songs from diverse artists and genres such as Goran Bregovic, Manu Chao, greek traditional songs, rempetika, balkan and mediterrenean music, the Clash and many more.

Their live shows have caused a great sensation either playing in venues all over Greece or in major greek summer festivals (Thessaloniki, Athens, Serres, Naoussa, Katerini, Goumenissa, Trikala, Ioannina, Alexandroupoli, Allonisos, Ardas summer festival, Earth Festival in Vlasti, Armenistis Camp (Halkidiki), Ljubliana, Amsterdam, Budapest etc).

A highlight moment for the band was the participation as a support band for the Goran Bregovic concert in Preveza, in August 2006.

Discogrpahy:
Virgo (ANO KATO records 2005).

In September of 2007 they recorded a new demo, that points the way into a much more balkan punk rock direction, which represents the current sound of the band.

Links

• the official MySpace site of Darnakes